Annual Party Where Kids Are Made To Destroy Their Toy Guns

Providence, RI – Malik Hall, a round-eyed second-grader, looked apprehensive as he stood in line with his favorite toy, a thick, blue gun with plastic sword underneath the muzzle. The 8-year-old was furious when his mother, Amanda, told him he would have to give it up. Yesterday morning, he tried to hide it under his pillow, she said.

“I’m worried,’’ she said. “He might cry.’’

But when it was his turn, Malik strode dry-eyed and with quiet dignity to the Bash-O-Matic and fed it the gun. When his mother approached, he said nothing.

That’s disgusting and seems most the comments on that site reflect that as well. On a personal note, I might be alive today because the back pack full of guns that I carried around broke my fall down a flight of stairs when I was 6. You can’t tell me guns don’t save lives.

I will never understand the fear most people have of anything violent, or for the new trend of babying kids way too much. In this case, they’re toy guns, for f—‘s sake. A toy gun does not make a mass murderer. A toy gun is like a right of passage for a kid, so that they can play Cops and Robbers or Cowboys and Indians or whatever.
Personally, I’d have my kid exposed to that as soon as possible…not so he becomes a school shooter as most people think, but so that he understands the danger with guns, but also their utility.

Guns are simply tools, and nothing more. They’re no more, or less, deadly, than anything else in my garage, from the axe I use to cut firewood to the sledgehammer I’ve never really used to a 2×4 leaned up against the wall. Are we going to be getting rid of those next?

Does no one else find it absurd that the kid got expelled from school for “firing” a pop gun at the kid who STOLE his toy truck? Did the kid who STOLE the truck get tossed?

Pulled directly from the Boston Globe article:

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But when it was his turn, Malik strode dry-eyed and with quiet dignity to the Bash-O-Matic and fed it the gun. When his mother approached, he said nothing.

“You don’t want to talk to me?’’ Hall asked. He looked at her stonily and left to retrieve his gift.

Hall said she had no regrets. The 26-year-old mother of six said she has been trying to wean her only son off toy guns for years. In kindergarten, he brought a pop gun to school and shot at a classmate when the child refused to return his toy truck.

The police and representatives of the state’s children services department rushed to the school, and the boy was expelled.

“He had it in his pants like a gangster,’’ Hall said. Yesterday, she had six other of his guns to feed the Bash-O-Matic, but she admitted she had let Malik keep one, a small pistol that shoots rubber targets.
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this. is. sick.
This society just sucks the rancid teat of anybody who can glass their eyes over and follow blindly, don’t they ?
.. this is fucking disgusting, if i have kids, I’ll make sure they learn airsoft at age 7, and how to choke a motherfucker out at 11-12, none of this makes any sense, can we please just go back to a normal, trusting, sane society. why did we let a bunch of convicted murderers do this to us ? please
, please, please, please, oh sweet lord, the end is nigh.
..of course, the end is nowhere in sight, i need to buy a spaceship and some air filters.